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Tag: expectations

  • Why not dream big?

    “When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals, and uninformed scoffers, we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.” – Abraham Maslow You create your own limits when you neglect to dream, when you fail to plan, when you lower expectations and pay attention to the naysayers.  There are no…

  • The burden of necessary achievement

    “Lift the weight of necessary achievement.” When I realized I wasn’t a prodigy, I could exhale, I could join the larger world. Too often, we become burdened by the high expectations of others, as well as the unrealistic, self-imposed pressures to achieve. We find ourselves living within a closed room of our own making, walled…

  • Consciousness | Growing, Pain, Healing and Joy

    “We cannot go back. We can only go forward.” -M. Scott Peck, M.D. Here in-lies a bittersweet truth of evolving into consciousness. Once we see, we can never unsee. We can never go back. Find comfort in knowing that ignorance is, in fact, not bliss. Since we cannot go back, we must grow up. Growing…

  • The Beginning Of Love

    “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” -Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island

  • Living With Love

    “The heart cannot contain both fear and love at the same time. When our hearts contain fear, we cannot love. Fear is worrying that we won’t get what we need. Love is about sharing with the other person. When we are walking with love in our heart, living with love, then we are in an…

  • 5 simple rules for happiness

    free your heart from hatred free your mind from worries live simply give more expect less Happiness is found in freedom and simplicity. Free yourself from hatred and worry. Live simply and lower your expectations. Happiness is found in peace, generosity and relaxation. Make way for happiness in your life.